November 28, 2011—Chicago—Medspira, the innovative medical device company, announces a collaboration with Philips Healthcare to offer Medspira’s Breath Hold™ interactive breath control monitoring system as an option for Philips’ BrightView XCT SPECT/CT systems. Developed by Mayo Clinic physicians, Breath Hold™ is a user-friendly system that enables patients to easily and consistently reproduce a breath-hold reference point to help maintain a consistent breathing pattern during imaging exams and other medical procedures.
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Successful Joint Commission-Accredited US Teleradiology Firm Expands with New International Division Solution supports growing mobile trend Telemedicine might be a cost-effective solution for improving stroke patient treatment at rural hospitals that cannot employ a full-time neurologist, according to a new study. The GCC Healthcare Challenge 2050 will be the core theme at our 2nd flagship MENA Healthcare Summit scheduled for 10 & 11 October at the Riyadh Marriott Hotel. It follows the successful 1st event held in Cairo in 2010 with over 300 senior officials and private sector decision-makers from over 25 Countries attending. Remote patients and prison inmates treated for hepatitis C by primary care physicians with telemedicine help from a university specialty clinic achieved equal viral suppression as patients treated at the university clinic, a new study shows. UltraLinq Healthcare Solutions is planning to continue their support of Gift of Life International’s mission through an interactive attendee benefit at this year’s American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions, held June 11th -14th in Montreal, Quebec. Telemedicine may offer rural and remote patients access to specialists not available in their local hospital, but access to specialists in Intensive Care made little difference in mortality according to a meta-analysis of more than 40,000 critically ill patients, say researchers. |